Mother of San Bernardino terrorist will plead guilty to destroying evidence after she shredded a map her son used in the 2015 attack that left 14 dead
Rafia Sultana Shareef, 66, agreed to plead guilty to a charge for destruction of evidence, the US attorney's office announced Tuesday
Her son Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people during a Christmas party in San Bernardino on December 2, 2015
Farook and Malik fled and were killed hours later in a shootout with police
After learning her son was a suspect Shareef shredded a map used in the attack
She is expected to be sentenced to 18 months in prison under a plea deal
The mother of a terrorist who killed 14 people in a 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence by shredding a map her son may have used to plan the massacre.
At the time, Shareef was sharing a Redlands home with her son, his wife and their 6-month-old daughter.
On the morning of the shooting, Farook and Malik left the home, telling Shareef that they were going to a medical appointment, prosecutors said.
Instead, they drove to the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino and attacked the party.
After Shareef learned that law enforcement had identified her son as a suspect in the attack, she went into his bedroom, 'grabbed at least one document that appeared to be a map, and fed it into a shredder,' the US attorney's office said.
Shareef admitted that she knew her son had produced the document, and she believed it was directly related to his planning of the IRC attack,' the statement said
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